Word: building
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds) and at Houston (125 beds). Last week Edward Stephen Harkness, good angel of many a school and hospital, gave $600,000 to the Southern Pacific to add a wing to the San Francisco hospital and to build a tuberculosis sanitarium at Tucson, Ariz...
...they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat...
...first Institute of Comparative Law in the United States will be founded at Harvard this Fall to afford the students of law in the newly enlarged Harvard Law School a concrete basis of ideas from the law of other countries on which to build the legal reforms of the future...
...little more than a decade he has been able to almost wipe out a world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest...
Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...